I disagree with his contention but when the safeties walk up to stop the run, someone is open deep.

After a four-year recovery, 18 million-plus Americans still want a job. Never in my life have unemployment levels been so high for so long. Unemployment tears at the fabric of society, like machines people left idle get rusty. Imagine the progress if Congress fought unemployment as hard as they fight about the budget. The No. 1 job of Congress should be to foster employment.

Yes Virginia, climate change is real. When more than 90 percent of scientists agree it’s called a fact. While laws of men control our deficit, physics govern climate change.

Doubters should look to the east, BANG, the Apalachicola estuary has collapsed, taking along the country’s finest oysters. An ongoing drought coupled with increased demand from metro Atlanta urbanization and South Georgia agriculture caused the decline.

Climate change also increases the chances of more powerful tropical storms; Floridians, including Oysterman Rick, should pay attention.

We have to address our crumbling infrastructure; bridges should not fall in America. The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates over the next decade our inadequate infrastructure will cost the economy more than $3 trillion or more than $28,000 per household.

I disagree with his contention but when the safeties walk up to stop the run, someone is open deep.

After a four-year recovery, 18 million-plus Americans still want a job. Never in my life have unemployment levels been so high for so long. Unemployment tears at the fabric of society, like machines people left idle get rusty. Imagine the progress if Congress fought unemployment as hard as they fight about the budget. The No. 1 job of Congress should be to foster employment.

Yes Virginia, climate change is real. When more than 90 percent of scientists agree it’s called a fact. While laws of men control our deficit, physics govern climate change.

Doubters should look to the east, BANG, the Apalachicola estuary has collapsed, taking along the country’s finest oysters. An ongoing drought coupled with increased demand from metro Atlanta urbanization and South Georgia agriculture caused the decline.

Climate change also increases the chances of more powerful tropical storms; Floridians, including Oysterman Rick, should pay attention.

We have to address our crumbling infrastructure; bridges should not fall in America. The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates over the next decade our inadequate infrastructure will cost the economy more than $3 trillion or more than $28,000 per household.

Replacing infrastructure will reduce unemployment and energy investments can reduce greenhouse gases and fossil fuel demands. I like Audi’s Super Bowl commercial but the third quarter power failure starkly advertises our third-world power grid. During the signature American event, the lights have to stay on; they did at The Red Bar.

Nutting may be on to something with his next argument-income inequality. According to the Congressional Budget Office, from 1979 to 2007 (essentially my working life), the average income for the top 1 percent increased by 277 percent. The 80 percent in the middle saw their income increase by 38 percent. It’s not that the middle class is slackers (or takers), while inflation-adjusted wages crept up 1/2 percent annually productivity grew three times as much. Retired neurologist William Bernstein argues inequality leads to higher social, medical and political costs. He also points out some data links inequality with lower economic growth.

Don’t blast Bernstein as an income redistributor. His company, Efficient Frontier Advisors, will manage your money but requires a $10 million minimum.

Money talks and its increasing influence in politics bodes poorly for America. Unlimited, unrestricted and often hidden corporate donations allow business interests to shape debate and influence legislators. When America cranked the engine on this great experiment only white men who owned property (in those days wealthy) could vote. Since the beginning of our democracy, there has been an increase — often sluggish but steady — in participation at the ballot box. Now voting rights are under attack; people shouldn’t have to wait for hours to vote.

Yes, the debt trajectory is unsustainable and we can’t ignore other important problems either. Don’t trust everyone’s motive, some use the debt crisis to advance their agenda-Social Security privatization, for instance.